Maury Povich

There is no doubt that our shows in the 90s and early 2000s spawned all the Housewives shows, all the Kardashians.

Any kind of reality show now on cable was all sparked by our shows.

31 years, we never got fake on the air.

You are not.

You are not.

The thread for my entire career was I was chasing other people's stories.

I was never able to kind of reveal myself.

And so with the podcast, I feel unchained.

I want to do everything my brother did.

I thought that was the nicest thing anybody has ever said to me, that my brother, who I looked up to all of my life, thought that I was his hero.

I can even tear up about that.

I've spent the last couple of years talking to the New York Times about my obituary, which is written.

I don't think I've told anybody this, Dan Morgan.

If people say that to me, that means that I'm part of their culture.

And so that means that the show had some penetration and that they either watch that show for entertainment or for information or for knowledge or for, as Shaquille O'Neal used to say, he and his buddies used to bet on whether the guy was the father or not.

I was very proud of the way we came up with our themes and the way we employed them.

My show had, we had production teams and it was like being in a newsroom.

They had to check out these people who wanted to come on.

Obviously the 800 number helped with whether it be DNA or lie detector test or out of control teenagers.

And so these producing teams,